India temporarily blocks Telegram over medical exam cheating fears
2026-06-17T08:51:56Z•38554af1adae85811dfccc80795987af78ec85c2e2933722b7fe21e166700aac
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What happened
A set of policy and incident reports: India temporarily blocked Telegram after scammers abused features to post fake exam questions and later replace them with real ones; the UK announced plans to bar children under 16 from accessing user-to-user social platforms (including algorithmic feeds); Estonia will quarantine and apply extra screening to emails from the Russian .ru domain before delivery to government officials; Maine closed its public data-breach portal after being flooded with fake reports while retaining company reporting and auditing procedures; Russian tech firm Astral was hit bya
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